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Frederick Douglass Quote - We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Frederick Douglass

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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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